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Hi, I'm Ref, and my passion is recreating the foods of the past, with a particular emphasis on Viking Age Scandinavia.

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Tried some new dishes

June 8, 2011 1 comment

At June Faire last weekend I tried a couple of new Viking-possible dishes that worked out really well. Both were cooked over the fire, one in pottery (cabbage) and the other in cast iron (mostly because it was bigger than any of my pottery). In a clay pot, heated up some chopped bacon ends until [...]

Recipes, Viking cabbage, chicken, peas

Saturday food

February 22, 2011 No comments

So we went to a Viking party (like ya’ do) on Saturday, and to get ready I made some food. I started out with some bread. I got a grain mill for Christmas this year (thanks honey!) so I ground some hulless barley to start with. The first batch of bread was barley and oat [...]

Baking, Recipes, Viking barley, bread, pickles, skyr

Weekend cooking demo

June 7, 2010 No comments

We were doing a cooking demo at an SCA event this weekend in Port Gamble, WA, and I got to spend pretty much the whole day Saturday playing over the fire. At home we often give out samples to the public at demos, but the food handling laws in WA don’t really allow that, so [...]

Baking, Recipes, Viking barley, beef, bread, oats, stew

Skyr

June 7, 2010 12 comments

I’ve had some ups and downs making skyr, and no two batches have come out quite the same way. The most reliable I’ve tried so far is based on the recipe in Complete Anachronist #143 “Skyr and Mysa: Viking curds and whey”. The recipe is pretty easy, but very time consuming, particularly heating the milk [...]

Dairy, Recipes, Viking skyr

Viking chowder?

June 3, 2010 1 comment

I had some stuff to use up last night, so I decided to try a new Viking possible soup. I got some green garlic (garlic shoots), and boiled then in water until they started to soften, and added a box of salt cod that I’d thawed and soaked since the day before. To that I [...]

Recipes, Viking bread, cod, soup, vegetables

More sahti brewing

May 17, 2010 No comments

Over the weekend I started my third batch of sahti, which is essentially the folk small-beer of Finland, and what at least one author refers to as one of the oldest living beer styles. I haven’t had a chance to try and construct the traditional mash tun made from a hollow log, so I had [...]

Brewing, Recipes, Viking barley, beer, sahti

On glop

May 10, 2010 4 comments

Given the intersection of what the Vikings had to eat and what they had to cook it with (both of which we can know from the archeological record) I surmise that a great deal of what the average Viking ate on any given day boiled down to what my friend Eulalia calls “war glop”, and [...]

Recipes, Viking bacon, barley, oats, porridge, vegetables

Viking Possible #2

May 8, 2010 No comments

One of my recent favorites, that I learned from Jorunn when she entered it in our Kingdom Arts & Sciences competition a few years back… Simmer leeks and dried fish in cream with a little salt (very little if the fish is salty). She used smoked black cod, which I’ve done as well. It’s expensive, [...]

Recipes, Viking barley, fish, stew

Viking Possible

May 8, 2010 5 comments

One of the real challenges of trying to reproduce Viking food is that we can’t actually know exactly what they ate because they didn’t write it down. What we do have to go on is the archeological record, and some very sketchy literary evidence from the sagas. What that leaves us with is “Viking possible”. [...]

Recipes, Viking bacon, barley, oats, pottery

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